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Norfolk Naval Shipyard plans to hire 1,500 employees by Sept. 30, and it will host a career fair on Saturday to hear from interested applicants. The event takes place March 28 from 10 a.m. to 2 p.m. at Tidewater Community College's Portsmouth campus, in the Student Center, Building E. The fair will emphasize production skill trades. Representatives from major departments in the yard will be available to answer questions. Also attending will be personnel from U.S. Fleet Forces Human Resources Office—Norfolk Naval Shipyard. They will discuss the application process and how to effectively use USAJobs, the employment website for all federal jobs, including those at the...

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Norfolk Naval Shipyard plans to hire 1,500 employees by Sept. 30, and it will host a career fair on Saturday to hear from interested applicants.
The event takes place March 28 from 10 a.m. to 2 p.m. at Tidewater Community College's Portsmouth campus,...

U.S. employers extended a healthy streak of hiring in February by adding 295,000 jobs, the 12th straight monthly gain above 200,000. The Labor Department said Friday that the unemployment rate fell to 5.5 percent from 5.7 percent. But the decline in the...

U.S. employers hired at a stellar pace last month, wages rose by the most in six years, and Americans responded by streaming into the job market to find work.
The Labor Department said Friday that the economy gained a seasonally adjusted 257,000 jobs...

It's fast, strikes without warning and has wreaked havoc on the nation's hogs. A virus first identified in the U.S. last year has killed millions of young hogs, putting the pork industry into flux and leaving Americans paying a premium for ham and bacon....

Over the past year, except for in August 2013, the Hampton Roads unemployment rate stayed below 6 percent, a state labor economist noted.
Compared to a year earlier, the unemployment rate dropped from 5.9 percent to 5.6 percent in September, according to...

Hampton Roads' seasonally adjusted unemployment rate dropped to 5.7 percent in July, but this was because of almost 2,000 residents leaving the labor market, Hampton Roads Planning District Commission senior economist James Clary reports.
The number of...

Employers with 50 or fewer employees aren't required by the Affordable Care Act to offer health insurance coverage, but they should examine available options with the state's health insurance marketplace.
Many small businesses are weighing whether to...

Two growing Hampton Roads business owners believe health-care reform may give them more work if companies decide to cut employees and hire outside contractors for janitorial services.
And they worry that those same Affordable Care Act requirements...

Mental health professionals are increasingly pointing to early intervention and increased services for children as one of the keys to successful treatment for mental illnesses.
Colonial Behavioral Health, the community services board responsible for...

Fewer Virginians are receiving health insurance coverage through their employers and those who are pay significantly more than a decade ago. The Robert Wood Johnson Foundation, a New Jersey-based health advocacy group, released a new report Thursday...

Most consumers who have access to employer-backed health care will be making choices about their health plans in October and November, and the landscape isn't getting any easier to navigate.
For many, premiums continue to climb.
"We'll be even less...

Walmart will host a job fair in preparation for the opening of a new Neighborhood Market in Williamsburg, a press release announced Tuesday.
Walmart will hire as many as 95 employees to work at the new Walmart market slated to open this fall. A temporary...

Virginians who receive health insurance through their employers are paying more and more of the costs. In just five years, the average deductible for those with family health plans has risen more than 70 percent, from a little over $1,000 a year to almost...

As the national economy struggles to find solid footing following the worst economic recession since the Great Depression, candidates for federal office, from the presidential race down to the local congressional races, are locked in a philosophical...

Mercer, a consulting firm with a local office in Norfolk, released this report predicting how employers will respond to health reform, based on Mercer research and client feedback.Here are some highlights:1. Employers generally will not drop employee...

The U.S. seafood industry and members of Congress are fighting a federal order that will boost the wages of tens of thousands of migrant workers as much as 30 percent.The H-2B program connects up to 66,000 foreign workers with seafood dealers, landscapers...

HAMPTONFifteen years ago, in a 10-by-10-foot room in Newport News, Nancy Davenport-Ennis went to work to help breast cancer patients get a fair shake from their insurance companies. She was motivated by the death of her friend Cheryl Grimmel, whose...

Jan. 20, 2012: Today, the the Department of Health and Human Services issued this press release:"In August 2011, the DHHS issued an interim final rule that will require most health insurance plans to cover preventive services for women including...

Hundreds of contract employees arrived at Surry nuclear power plant in April to repair the aging facility.Before work started, one of them told the Daily Press, safety officials said the jobs did not involve asbestos and any pipes containing asbestos...

The American Center for Law and Justice (ACLJ) reports that: "focusing on constitutional law, it is representing 79 Members of Congress in submitting amicus briefs in 12 separate lawsuits brought by more than 40 Catholic organizations...